Airport security – not in good shape 6 yrs after 9/11
Great article on airport security that was linked from Bruce Schneier’s blog site. Bottom line: airport security is still sub-par, as bureaucrats dream up unrealistic non-solutions and avoid common-sense steps. Read the entire article if you’re interested (contains some useful specifics and some scary statistics). Here’s the concluding para:
In the end, we should be starting with defending the smallest spaces — the cockpits and cargo compartments, and working outward to the limits of our resources; instead of starting with the airport perimeter and working inward, ignoring the actual defense of those spaces that are actually the terrorist targets. And we should be using the resources already in place to the greatest extent possible, instead of trying to bring new, untried methods into play, then waiting to find out they don’t work nearly as well in reality as they do on paper.